Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...

Oral history.; Interview conducted April 19, 2002, in the McCarley home in Port Gibson, Mississippi. McCarley was born October 19, 1919 in Port Gibson. She discusses growing up, sharecropping and tenancy, her education at Port Gibson High School...

cartoon by John Stampone; A giant polar bear sits on top of a guard house that is situated in front of a barbed wire fence. The bear is wearing boots and a hat, and it holds a bone labeled "Czechs" in its big paws. A rifle is slung across his...

Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A recruiting poster with jungle-type foliage nearby shows Uncle Sam dressed as a soldier with a rifle slung across his back. Showing under his helmet is a bandage tied around...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. President Nixon is dressed in the univorm of an American revolutionary soldier and has a rifle slung over one shoulder. In a mittened hand he holds a paper with the words,...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A giant stone statue of a Chinese soldier stands upon the surface of the globe. The soldier stands at attention with a rifle slung over its shoulder. A grenade is in the belt,...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Roy Carless. Richard Nixon's face appears on the body of the Statue of Liberty. His expression is grim. Instead of the torch, Nixon swirls a club in the air. The book in his other arm is...

Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.

From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...